Lakeview is an unincorporated predominantly African American community in the Carrier Mills township, Saline County, Illinois, United States.

[citation needed] According to one account, only 13 Native American families remained and they welcomed the freedmen with open arms.

[3] Census records indicate that the first settlers were the Allen, Blackwell, Taborn, Mitchell, Evans, Cofield, and Cole Families.

Never a formal community or village, Lakeview covered a series of farmsteads concentrated about 3 square miles (7.8 km2); however, the focus of the settlement has always been on the church and school, along what is now Taborn Road.

Descendants of Lakeview have continued to hold an annual community reunion at the cemetery on Memorial Day for decades, a tradition dating to the 19th century.

[6][7] In 2022 a preliminary application for a federal historical designation district was submitted by Lakeview descendant Brendan Jennings.

Additionally, the project will amend the existing National Register nominations for the following sites including the Carrier Mills Archaeological District, to reflect the African American heritage of the Pond Settlement, also known as Lakeview.